10-letter words containing c, d, u
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- granduncle — an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.
- ground ice — anchor ice.
- guard cell — either of two specialized epidermal cells that flank the pore of a stoma and usually cause it to open and close.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- handcuffed — Simple past tense and past participle of handcuff.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- head count — an inventory of people in a group taken by counting individuals.
- hiccoughed — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccough.
- hold court — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- holodiscus — a genus of flowering deciduous shrubs of the family Rosaceae
- house dick — house detective.
- huckstered — Simple past tense and past participle of huckster.
- humic acid — a brown, melanin-tinted mixture of polymers, found in lignite, peat, and soils, where it acts as a cation exchange agent: used in drilling fluids and inks.
- humpbacked — having a hump on the back.
- hydraulics — the science that deals with the laws governing water or other liquids in motion and their applications in engineering; practical or applied hydrodynamics.
- hydromulch — to spread mulch on (a field, garden, etc.) in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
- idée reçue — a generally held opinion or concept
- impictured — painted
- imprudence — not prudent; lacking discretion; incautious; rash.
- impudicity — immodesty.
- in custody — Someone who is in custody or has been taken into custody has been arrested and is being kept in prison until they can be tried in a court.
- inadequacy — Also, inadequateness [in-ad-i-kwit-nis] /ɪnˈæd ɪ kwɪt nɪs/ (Show IPA). the state or condition of being inadequate; insufficiency.
- inch-pound — one-twelfth of a foot-pound. Abbreviation: in-lb.
- includable — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- includible — to contain, as a whole does parts or any part or element: The package includes the computer, program, disks, and a manual.
- incouraged — Simple past tense and past participle of incourage.
- inculcated — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- incumbered — encumber.
- incurvated — Simple past tense and past participle of incurvate.
- indecorous — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
- induceable — Capable of being induced.
- inducement — the act of inducing.
- inductance — that property of a circuit by which a change in current induces, by electromagnetic induction, an electromotive force. Symbol: L. Compare inductive coupling, mutual inductance, self-inductance.
- inducteous — Rendered electropolar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.
- inductions — Plural form of induction.
- indulgence — the act or practice of indulging; gratification of desire.
- indulgency — indulgence.
- ineducable — incapable of being educated, especially because of some condition, as mental retardation or emotional disturbance.
- influenced — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- injudicial — lacking judgement; injudicious
- inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- instructed — Simple past tense and past participle of instruct.
- interclude — to confine
- introduced — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introducer — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.